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Processor Washes Eggs, Saves Farmers Labor, Money You wouldn’t think a “little things like washing eggs could make much difference ini the egg 'business. But look what’s happening in a syven county area of Central North Caro lina. . Central Carolina Fanners Ex change is trashing eggs for its egg producers who ask for the service. The new system cuts 40 per cent or more of the labor in producing eggs on the farm. And. it cuts the farmer’s cost of'washing eggs. “In-plant eggVashing can enable the farmer to handle twice as many hens with no 1001*6 - labor,” says Tom Morris, Extension poultry specialist at North Carolina State College. , Morris estimates that most egg producers spend about 75 per cent of their time • handling eggs. The in-plant washing cuts Out about 75 per cent of this labor. “Usually the fanner, his wife and their children pitch in to help with the egg chores,” says Morris. “This amounts to a third Of a cent pet dozen, compared to two or three, cents cost on the farm. ' In the Central Carolina egg pro cessing plant at Dutham, machines do most .of the work: Washing, spraying, • candling, grading and packaging. One ‘gdaget even packs the eggs small end down in the cartons. An,other stamps the pack-, aging date on them. "We’re--using less labor, on a' per-case basis, than before we ptits In the new machinery,” says John Hamby, manager of the egg pl^nt. “Wie get a uniform* quality of egg, and there’s almost no breakage.” Breakage on the farm is cut to a minimum, too, since' ,the fanner handles the eggs only one time. “Eventually, wfe hope to have it worked out so that no human hands touch the eggs until the homemaker gets $jiem,” says Hamby. / ■ Central Carolina handles about 1,000 cases of eggs a week with the new,system. They come from about 15 producers, principally in Durham and Orange counties, but from Granville, Chatham, Alamance, Moore and Person counties, too. '* “Our goal is about 6,000 cases a week,” says Hamby. In-plant egg Washing has been in use for years in California, and a few other states. It’s just beginning to take. hold in the Southeast. “Only one other egg packing plant in tiie state is using the sys tem—Chick Haven, at North Wilkes boro," says Morris. The real aim of the new method is to keep the price of eggs at a satisfactory level for both the farm er-, and the homemaker. It’s one WitHThree Days Le£t ■6 tlHighway Deaths in; Lenoir Tied with,11960 the SnoV Hill highway, when brakes failed on a lumber laden truck dri ven'By Isom Warm Stockland, 214, of pover route 1. The, truck shot through the intersection, into an opfen field and the lumber crushed the truck cab, killing Strickland instantly. ' The next cfcath by traffic acci dent didn’t come until March 19 when 6Q year-old Clarence Edmond son of 815 Oak Street was kilted by a hit-and-run driver, who struck his bicycle down on' the 100 block of east Shine Street early on that Cold mojmingr *£be driver of the ear has not yei been apprehended. April saw two traffic deaths' in Lenoir —: the first a pedestrian, Margaret Dallas Jack son, 25, of ■Jacksonville^ who was instantly kill ed at about 6 JO .p.m. on April 3rd about three miles south of Kirtston on US 258 when she stepped into .the path of a passing car. . »' On Ajprii 25th' Wflligm Charles. .White, 8, -Son of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley White of; .the Albritton Crossroad section south of Kinston,' was instanly killed when .he rode his bicycle into the path of a north-, bound vehicle at about 5:15. p.m. Lenoir County’s only double traf fic death camp at 7.20 p.m. May 18th on a rural paved road north of Pink Hill which connects NC 11 and US 258. Mrs. Josephine' Tyn dall, 48, of Pink Hill route 1, driv ing east toward her home less than a half mile away, swung too wide in a curve and met the westbound car of Lester Lee Britt Jr. of Al bertson refute 1 headon. Both were killed instantly. In JUly death struck three-times on the streets and roads of Lenoir County. On the 8th of July four year-old ^Jacqueline Davis of the Old Asphalt plant Road darted, into the path of, a passing car and was instantly killed. Later that , same day William C. Thompson, 81, of Pink Hill route 1, walked into the path of another more in a long line of improvements in the business of- ^ggs — which now are at about the same price level as in l"940, despite constantly rising costs on the fartrf. V destrian nine year-old Dennis Ray Taylpr of 909 Pink'fljU Road, who also ran into the path of a car. 1November along with July dslim* ed three traffic deaths in Lenoir County, and_ each- of these carfte from a sihgle car acddent. Albert Williams, 56, of Jackson ville was killed early on the morn ing of November 5th south of Kins toiy on . US. 258 from too much speed. ' S ,William B. Malyszka, a 19 year nuta, 21,’ was killed in the same spot and in % same manner. Tie last auto death recorded at this writing jn ’61 came from an accident on December Grange, in which Mrs. Rosa-; l^ee Radford, S3, suffered injuries from which she died, on •* the 21st in a poor ■ - In the past two weeks Charlie Frank Holland has been indicted twice for beating his wife, and most recently he'was booked for the forgery of three checks against her back account. He is also under a. $1,000 peace bond ‘issue for the protection- of his . wife against fur ther assaults. ■ ".M ' \ ' ^ r—^te I ■ r ' ■ \ \ Home Care / :n m / Fully Licensed' and Supervised By North Carolina Medical Care Compassion and State Department of Public Welfare.1 / Grade A Sanitary Rating ■ ' ; ; :; - ■ ' A : . For full Infonhation Call or Write j»r \ Lenoir Nursing Home KINSTON, N. C. TELEPHONE JAckson 3-451* T “Helping to build a better Livestock Market for Eastern North Carolina” . ♦ i p prices paid
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